Join us Outside this Fall...
Observe, Learn, Make.
Experience Nature through the Seasons.
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Fall Chickadee Camp: Weekly Nature Awareness Program for ages 6 - 17.
Fridays 2:00 - 4:30. Begins October 4, Talent. $295 - $550 sliding scale* (paid per season, Fall, Winter, Spring)
Join us This Fall to learn from Nature...
Learn ancient skills such as animal tracking, wilderness survival and more. Games, stories, ancestral skills/crafts and exploring will weave together as we learn to blend into the landscape and open our senses. This is an opportunity to unplug, learn to make things with our own hands, and sync to nature’s rhythm. This program is based on holistic mentoring, rather than imparting information, yet information is woven throughout the experiences. We teach a broad curriculum of local species, wilderness skills, and sensory awareness, through experiences that also awaken attributes such as aliveness, curiosity, agility, self-sufficiency, common sense, and helpfulness through connection with the natural world. Knowing all your needs are provided for in nature, you may begin to feel at home in the wilderness.
Earth Skills on the Mountain - Weekly Program for ages 10 - 17.
Wednesdays 2:30 - 5:00. Begins September 18. Optional Overnight October 19 - 20. $350 - $675 sliding scale* (Paid per season, Fall, Winter, Spring). Near Ashland (25 minutes from Shop’n Kart).
We will construct a camp in the mountains, including a shelter, fire pit, personal bowdrill kit, tinder pouch, bow and arrows or atl-atl, rope from natural plant fibers, trap parts and other useful items. Each day will include lessons on sensory awareness, tracking and survival/earth living skills, games, stories, and snack time. Participants will have the option of camping overnight at our hand-made Earth Skills Camp (September 21 - 22 Sat - Sun) and enjoy using what we have made (yes, sleeping bags are allowed!).
Blacksmithing 101
Thursdays. Ages 10 and up. Cost: $275 - $650 sliding scale*
By popular request, we are offering blacksmithing again this Fall. Following a curriculum that introduces blacksmithing techniques and principles of metalwork step by step, the first class will focus on safety. Beginning projects will build on each other and may include hooks, flint and steel striker, tongs, un-tempered knife/letter opener, and build up to a knife, depending on time. More experienced students who attended the Spring class will build on their foundation and add new skills and techniques. Ages 10 and up. Due to the nature of the craft, and limited space, youth will have to attend a half-hour safety training and complete a written safety test, included on the first day. Parents are invited to stay on site and enjoy the mountain or observe class.
Choose a time slot: 12:30 - 2:15. 2:00 - 3:45. or 3:30 - 5:15.
First class September 26 (Six Classes, 2 weeks on, one week off. 9/26 & 10/3. 10/17 & 10/24. 11/7 & 11/14).
Fridays 2:00 - 4:30. Begins October 4, Talent. $295 - $550 sliding scale* (paid per season, Fall, Winter, Spring)
Join us This Fall to learn from Nature...
Learn ancient skills such as animal tracking, wilderness survival and more. Games, stories, ancestral skills/crafts and exploring will weave together as we learn to blend into the landscape and open our senses. This is an opportunity to unplug, learn to make things with our own hands, and sync to nature’s rhythm. This program is based on holistic mentoring, rather than imparting information, yet information is woven throughout the experiences. We teach a broad curriculum of local species, wilderness skills, and sensory awareness, through experiences that also awaken attributes such as aliveness, curiosity, agility, self-sufficiency, common sense, and helpfulness through connection with the natural world. Knowing all your needs are provided for in nature, you may begin to feel at home in the wilderness.
Earth Skills on the Mountain - Weekly Program for ages 10 - 17.
Wednesdays 2:30 - 5:00. Begins September 18. Optional Overnight October 19 - 20. $350 - $675 sliding scale* (Paid per season, Fall, Winter, Spring). Near Ashland (25 minutes from Shop’n Kart).
We will construct a camp in the mountains, including a shelter, fire pit, personal bowdrill kit, tinder pouch, bow and arrows or atl-atl, rope from natural plant fibers, trap parts and other useful items. Each day will include lessons on sensory awareness, tracking and survival/earth living skills, games, stories, and snack time. Participants will have the option of camping overnight at our hand-made Earth Skills Camp (September 21 - 22 Sat - Sun) and enjoy using what we have made (yes, sleeping bags are allowed!).
Blacksmithing 101
Thursdays. Ages 10 and up. Cost: $275 - $650 sliding scale*
By popular request, we are offering blacksmithing again this Fall. Following a curriculum that introduces blacksmithing techniques and principles of metalwork step by step, the first class will focus on safety. Beginning projects will build on each other and may include hooks, flint and steel striker, tongs, un-tempered knife/letter opener, and build up to a knife, depending on time. More experienced students who attended the Spring class will build on their foundation and add new skills and techniques. Ages 10 and up. Due to the nature of the craft, and limited space, youth will have to attend a half-hour safety training and complete a written safety test, included on the first day. Parents are invited to stay on site and enjoy the mountain or observe class.
Choose a time slot: 12:30 - 2:15. 2:00 - 3:45. or 3:30 - 5:15.
First class September 26 (Six Classes, 2 weeks on, one week off. 9/26 & 10/3. 10/17 & 10/24. 11/7 & 11/14).
*What do we mean by “sliding scale”?
Rather than fixing the price (and pricing out some families, or underpaying ourselves), we have discovered that using a sliding scale system has allowed it to ‘work out’ in the end. By trusting that participants pay based on annual income and need, we have successfully kept our prices affordable yet met our bottom line as well, despite an increasingly challenging economic environment. Please choose your own price within the suggested range. Our intention is that sliding scale prices help make classes accessible to all. If it’s a struggle to pay for a program, then pay the lowest price suggested (also contact us to see if work-trade or other discounts may be available). If you can pay more, then please do. This will help make programs accessible to all, and still keep them running. Thank you!
Rather than fixing the price (and pricing out some families, or underpaying ourselves), we have discovered that using a sliding scale system has allowed it to ‘work out’ in the end. By trusting that participants pay based on annual income and need, we have successfully kept our prices affordable yet met our bottom line as well, despite an increasingly challenging economic environment. Please choose your own price within the suggested range. Our intention is that sliding scale prices help make classes accessible to all. If it’s a struggle to pay for a program, then pay the lowest price suggested (also contact us to see if work-trade or other discounts may be available). If you can pay more, then please do. This will help make programs accessible to all, and still keep them running. Thank you!
Singing Earth Offers
Most of our classes take place near Ashland Oregon.
- Skills Classes
- Youth Nature Connection Groups
- Music Lessons
- One-on-One Mentoring
- Wilderness Trips
- Summer Camps
- Wilderness Rite of Passage
- Storytelling Presentations - contact us for more info. Stories are drawn from the Stone Age Living Project a hunter gatherer experience in modern times, and the Origins Project, visiting and learning from the Nharo Bushmen of Botswana to inspire deeper connection with nature.
Most of our classes take place near Ashland Oregon.
